the slide show that accompanied the lit review during the Body Positivity & Fat Acceptance pre-conference at YALSA's 2010 YA Lit Symposium. Might not make too much sense if you weren't in the audience, but you're welcome to it anyway! :)

1. Big Fat Books
Body Positivity and Fat
Acceptance in Contemporary
Young Adult Fiction

2. Fat 2.0
•www.fatgirlreading.com
•fatgirlreading@gmail.com
•@misskubelik
•#yalsalit10 #readfat

13. Literature Review
•Positive
•Good Intentions
•Problematic
•Adult Titles w/ Teen Appeal
•Disordered Eating

14. Positive

15. Payback Time by Carl Deuker
•Daniel “Mitch”
True, senior
•“5’4, 200…three
months ago”
•Houghton
Mifflin, 2010

16. Models Don’t Eat Chocolate Cookies
by Erin Dionne
•Celeste Harris,
eighth grader
•“plus sized”
•Dial, 2009

17. Does This Book Make
Me Look Fat?
• Anthology edited by
Marissa Walsh
• Fiction and non-
fiction from authors
like Barry Lya, Ellen
Hopkins, Coe Booth,
and Sara Zarr
• Clarion, 2008

18. Go Figure by Jo Edwards
•Ryan Burke, 17
•“206 pounds”
•Simon Pulse,
2007

19. Secrets of Truth & Beauty
by Megan Frazer
•Dara Cohen, 17
•“fat”
•Hyperion, 2009

20. Looks by Madeleine George

21. Looks by Madeleine George
•Meghan Ball, sophomore
•Aimee Zorn, freshman
•Viking, 2008

22. The DUFF by Kody Keplinger

23. The Designated, Ugly, Fat Friend
•Bianca Piper, 17
•Fatness? Unknown
•Poppy, 2010

24. Fat Hoochie Prom Queen
by Nico Medina
•Margarita
“Madge” Diaz,
senior
•“big girl”
•“chubs”
•Simon Pulse,
2008

25. The Debs by Susan McBride

26. The Debs by Susan McBride
•Laura Delacroix Bell
•“size 14”
•Delacorte, 2008 & 2009
•Final book in the trilogy “in
publishing limbo”

27. Beacon Hills High by Mo’Nique and
Sherri McGee McCovey
• Eboni Ames, 13
• “F.A.T. – Fabulous
And Thick”
• “fluffy”
• Amistad, 2008
• First in a series that
never materialized

28. All About Vee by C. Leigh Purtill
•Veronica “Big
Vee” May, 18
•217 pounds
•Razorbill, 2008

29. Vintage Veronica by Erica S. Perl
• Veronica Walsh,
almost 16
• “fat”
• Knopf, 2010
• “With her pigtails,
bulk, and hybrid
outfits, it’s hard to
envision Veronica as
the fashion icon
others admire.” –
Ilene Cooper in
Booklist

30. My Big Fat Manifesto
by Susan Vaught

31. My Big Fat Manifesto
by Susan Vaught
•Jamie Carcaterra, 17
•“Fat Girl”
•300+ pounds
•Bloomsbury, 2007

32. Blob by Frieda Wishinksy
•Eve Richards,
freshman
•“fat”
•Orca, 2010

33. Food, Girls, And Other Things
I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff

34. Food, Girls, And Other Things
I Can’t Have by Allen Zadoff
•Andrew Zansky, sophomore
•“306.4 pounds”
•EgmontUSA, 2009

35. Good Intentions

36. This Book Isn’t Fat, It’s Fabulous
by Nina Beck

37. This Book Isn’t Fat, It’s Fabulous
by Nina Beck
•Riley Swain, 16
•“186-188 pounds”
•“statuesque & pear-shaped”
•Point/Scholastic, 2008

38. The Dark Days of Hamburger Halpin
by Josh Berk
•Will Halpin, 16
•“manatee”
•Knopf, 2010

39. Plus by Veronica Chambers
• Bee Wilson, 17 year
old college freshman
• Fatness? Unknown
• Enough to be a “plus
sized supermodel”
but still “toned” and
“not bloated”
• Razorbill, 2010

40. Will Grayson, Will Grayson
by John Green & David Levithan
•Tiny Cooper,
•“ginormous”
•Dutton, 2010

41. Pretty Face by Mary Hogan
•Haley, 16
•“bowling-ball
belly”
•Harper, 2008

42. Slob by Ellen Potter
•Owen Birnbaum,
12
•“156 pounds”
•Philomel, 2009

43. Problematic

44. Fat Cat by Robin Brande
•Catherine Locke,
17
•“fat”
•“pudgeball”
•Knopf, 2009

45. Ugly Duckling’s Love Revolution by
Yuuki Fujinari

46. Ugly Duckling’s Love Revolution by
Yuuki Fujinari
•Hitomi
Sakuragawa
•“220 pounds”
•Yen Press, 2010

47. Huge by Sasha Paley

48. Huge by Sasha Paley
•Wil & April
•“overweight”
•“fat”
•Simon &
Schuster, 2007

49. Artichoke’s Heart
by Suzanne Supplee
• Rosemary Goode, 16
• “203-158 pounds”
• Dutton, 2008

50. Adult Titles w/ Teen Appeal

51. Adult Titles w/ Teen Appeal

52. Recommended for Adults

53. Disordered Eating

54. Nothing by Robin Friedman

55. Perfect by Natasha Friend

56. Hunger by Jackie Morse Kessler

57. thinandbeautiful.com
by Liane Shaw

58. Skin by Adrienne Maria Vrettos